| Evidence: | Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815:
'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has just now looked into it and found these words "All modern poetry is nothing but the old, genuine poetry , new [vam]ped, and delivered to us at second, or twentieth hand." In great wrath he took a pencil and wrote in the margin "That is false, William Godwin. Signed William Wordsworth."' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 22 May 1815 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Godwin |
| Title: | Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton |
| Genre: | History, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1815 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1742 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 94 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 94, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1742, accessed: 07 June 2023 | |
| From entry 180 (ii)in Wu (1995); quotation from Edwin W. Marrs, Jr., ed., The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb (3 vols., 1975-78) 3:161. |
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